Astronomy is riddled with complex jargon that many of us will probably never need to understand. However, you're more likely to read and hear about meteors, meteoroids, meteorites, comets, and ...

The idea of an asteroid striking the Earth is quite alarming to most of us – after all, it was the impact of a massive asteroid that is thought to have wiped out the dinosaurs, as well as 75% of the ...

October 31, 2023, Mountain View, CA – The SETI Institute is proud to announce a new book by SETI Institute meteor astronomer Dr. Peter Jenniskens. Called "Atlas of Earth's Meteor Showers," this ...

An international team of 45 researchers studying meteor showers has found that not all comets crumble the same way when they approach the Sun An international team of 45 researchers studying meteor ...

Asteroid (3200) Phaethon, recognised as the parent body of the annual Geminid meteor shower, occupies a unique position in planetary science. Despite its rocky, low-albedo nature, Phaethon exhibits ...

Recent events, including the Chelyabinsk meteor and near misses like 2019 OK, highlight the ongoing threat posed by asteroid impacts, demonstrating the potential for significant regional damage even ...

Of all the asteroids that become meteoroids by striking Earth's surface, only 4% contain abundant carbon. But scientists know carbon-rich asteroids are commonplace in the cosmos—they just don't often ...

An overview of the asteroids : the Asteroids III perspective / W.F. Bottke Jr. ... [et al.] -- Giuseppe Piazzi and the discovery of Ceres / G. Foderà Serio, A. Manara and P. Sicoli -- Asteroid orbit ...

Protoplanetary disk. Figure from a computer simulation visualizing the formation of planets (https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12278 ). Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech. August 22, 2024, Mountain View, CA - An ...